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SUBMITTER: Ross-Ibarra J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2666508 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey J Tenaillon Maud M Gaut Brandon S BS
Genetics 20090119 4
Gene flow plays a fundamental role in plant evolutionary history, yet its role in population divergence--and ultimately speciation--remains poorly understood. We investigated gene flow and the modalities of divergence in the domesticated Zea mays ssp. mays and three wild Zea taxa using sequence polymorphism data from 26 nuclear loci. We described diversity across loci and assessed evidence for adaptive and purifying selection at nonsynonymous sites. For each of three divergence events in the his ...[more]